The Big Picture (Rob Brown album)

The Big Picture is an album by American jazz saxophonist Rob Brown recorded in 2003 and released on the French Marge label. It features a quartet with trumpeter Roy Campbell, bassist Willam Parker and drummer Hamid Drake. These four musicians were in Paris to play at the 2003 edition of the Sons d'Hiver festival with two different bands: Campbell's Pyramid Trio and Parker's Raining on the Moon quintet, and producer Gérard Terronès got them into the studio.^[1]

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Reception

The All About Jazz review by Rex Butters states "These four veteran collaborators create their signature sound of abundant grace, heartbreaking beauty, and righteous swing bleeding blues."^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Rob Brown

"Dawning" – 9:38
"Islands of Space" – 10:11
"Wyoming Song" – 11:01
"Trio Unsprung" – 7:42
"Blues Thicket" – 10:10
"Legroom" – 14:23

Personnel

Rob Brown – alto sax, flute
Roy Campbell - trumpet, pocket trumpet, flugelhorn
William Parker – bass
Hamid Drake – drums

References

^ Original Liner Notes by Alexandre Pierrepont/Gérard Terronès
^ Butters, Rex. The Big Picture review at All About Jazz

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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	Sonic Explorations (with Matthew Shipp, 1987) Breath Rhyme (1989) Youniverse (1992) Illuminate (with Joe Morris, 1993) High Wire (1993) Orbit (with Guerino Mazzola and Heinz Geisser, 1996) Scratching the Surface (with Lou Grassi, 1997) Visage (1998) Jumping Off the Page (2000) Round the Bend (2001) Likewise (with Joe Morris and Luther Gray, 2003) The Big Picture (2003) Radiant Pools (2004) Sounds (2006) Right Hemisphere (with Matthew Shipp, Joe Morris, and Whit Dickey, 2006) Crown Trunk Root Funk (2007)
Live albums	Blink of an Eye (with Matthew Shipp, 1996) We Are Not Obstinate Islands (with Steve Swell and Harris Eisenstadt, 2004) Live at Firehouse 12 (2007) Unexplained Phenomena (2010) Unknown Skies (2010)

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